Karnataka

Karwar, Mar 13: A total of 1,922 polling stations would be set up in the six Assembly segments of Uttara Kannada district and two Assembly segments of Belagavi district that fall under the Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha constituency. Uttara Kannada Lok Sabha constituency comprises the Assembly segments of Kittur and Khanapur (Belagavi district), Haliyal, Karwar, Kumta, Bhatkal, Sirsi and Yallapur (Uttar

Bengaluru, Mar 13: The police have solved the murder case of gangster Lakshmana by arresting six persons including a 21-year-old girl, who is said to be the mastermind of the crime. 42-year-old Lakshmana, touted to be one of the richest rowdies of Karnataka, worth more than Rs 600 crore, was hacked to death in broad daylight on March 7 in Bengaluru’s Mahalakshmi Layout. He was released on bail a

Kolar, Mar 13: Police have arrested a married couple under provisions of the Child Marriage Act, Pocso Act and Protection of Civil Rights Act in connection with the rape of a minor Dalit girl and her forced marriage at Hunasikote in Malur taluk of Kolar district. The arrested are Gangaraju, 32, of Kumbara caste and from Dodda Kadathuru village, and his wife Pallavi, a 23-year-old Dalit woman, who

Newsroom, Mar 12: Enraged by the detergent brand Surf Excel’s latest advertisement which promotes Hindu-Muslim communal amity, dozens of online Hindutva activists have mistakenly taken revenge against software giant Microsoft’s Excel. The ad that promotes Surf Excel’s ‘Daag acche hai’ campaign has also divided social media. While some people are praising Surf Excel for the advertisement, the ad

Bengaluru, Mar 12: Strongly defending his decision to introduce his son Nikhil to politics as Janata Dal (S) candidate from party bastion Mandya, Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy said on Tuesday that he was not the first person who had set such trend to project a family member in the State and the electoral history will speak for itself. Speaking to newsmen here on today Mr Kumaraswamy

Bengaluru, Mar 12: Senior Congress leader A Manju from Hassan district, the stronghold of JD(S), on Tuesday indicated that it was true that he had met BJP Karnataka President B S Yeddyurappa and said he was against the party leaving key segments to JD(S) in Old Mysuru area in the coming Lok Sabha elections. According to State BJP sources, the Congress leader, who is nursing his ambition to fight

Bengaluru, Mar 12: Karnataka Legislative Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar on Tuesday postponed hearing on Congress petition to disqualify its four disgruntled Congress MLAs for disobeying the party whip by not attending the Congress legislative Party (CLP) meeting and allegedly indulging in anti-party activities. Sources said that the Speaker had put off the hearing 'indefinitely' as Code of conduct

Bengaluru, Mar 19: The Bharatiya Janata Party has reportedly decided to field Tejaswini Ananth Kumar, widow of late Union Minister H N Ananth Kumar from Bangalore South constituency. Ananth Kumar represented the constituency in the Lok Sabha for six consecutive terms since 1996. Tejaswini had initially conveyed her reluctance to contest polls. However, state and central party leaders had been

San Francisco, Mar 12: Complying to users and platform security concerns, Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is banning accounts of users who have been using modified versions of the app like WhatsApp Plus and GB WhatsApp. These altered versions of the messaging app are developed by third-parties where the company cannot validate its security practices. These unofficial apps violate the Terms

Kasaragod, May 12: A man set an 18-year-old girl on fire after she rejected his advances at Thiruvalla in Pathanamthitta district of Kerala. The accused poured petrol on her on a street in broad daylight and set her ablaze. The victim, a student of radiology and a native of Ayiroor, Pathanamthitta, has been hospitalised and the initial reports suggest that she has suffered 75 per cent burns. The